Emma Bird

Emma successfully auditioned for her first professional role Needle written by Jimmy McGovern directed by Gillies MacKinnon when she was 17 years old BBC 1990  Having secured representation with Sally LongInnes at ICM now Independent Talent she began a successful early career in television most notably as series regular Maxine Price in Casualty 1992 Her experience grew in short films and features through her work with director Sandra Goldbacher in Seventeen Piccadilly Circus by Night and The Governess starring alongside Minnie Driver 1997 Her notable theatre work includes The Good Hope adapted by Lee Hall directed by Bill Brydon 2002 at The Royal National Theatre David Mamets Oleanna Norwich Playhouse and The Woods The Finborough Theatre and Terms of Abuse by Jessica Townsend at Hampstead Theatre amongst others